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  2. Bengal famine of 1943 - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 December 2024. Famine in British India during World War II Bengal famine of 1943 From the photo spread in The Statesman on 22 August 1943 showing famine conditions in Calcutta. These photographs made world headlines and spurred government action. Country British India Location Bengal Orissa Period ...

  3. Turnip Winter - Wikipedia

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    At the rise of a potato famine in 1916, a German culinary staple, the government substituted the item with turnips hoping to make up the difference. [ citation needed ] In turn, German soldiers, "increasingly relied, for sheer survival, on one of the least appealing vegetables known to man, the humble turnip."

  4. European potato failure - Wikipedia

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    The European potato failure was a food crisis caused by potato blight that struck Northern and Western Europe in the mid-1840s. The time is also known as the Hungry Forties . While the crisis produced excess mortality and suffering across the affected areas, particularly affected were the Scottish Highlands , with the Highland Potato Famine and ...

  5. Chronology of the Great Famine - Wikipedia

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    An 1849 depiction of Bridget O'Donnell and her two children during the famine. The chronology of the Great Famine (Irish: An Gorta Mór [1] or An Drochshaol, lit. ' The Bad Life ') documents a period of Irish history between 29 November 1845 and 1852 [2] during which time the population of Ireland was reduced by 20 to 25 percent. [3]

  6. 1846–1848 Newfoundland potato famine - Wikipedia

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    The first known outbreak of the potato blight, Phytophthora infestans, occurred in the eastern United States in 1843. [4] As the blight spread to the north, it also crossed the ocean, reaching the potato fields of Ireland in September 1845, [5] three months before completing its journey along the American coast and arriving on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland.

  7. Potato revolution - Wikipedia

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    The "Potato revolution" (in German, Kartoffelrevolution) is the name given to the food riot that took place in the Prussian capital Berlin between April 21 and April 22/23, 1847. [ 1 ] This was triggered by failed harvests due to potato blight , which also caused the Great Famine in Ireland as well as famine crises and increased food prices in ...

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  9. Irish Famine (1879) - Wikipedia

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    The famine of 1879 is attributed to the effects of the "Long Depression" in the late 19th century, inclement climate, potato blight, and cholera among chickens.Unlike the earlier Irish Famine of 1740 to 1741 and Great Famine of 1845 to 1852, the 1879 event resulted in fewer deaths, due to changes in the technology of food production, different structures of land-holding (the disappearance of ...